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Ask HN: Do any discussion boards that aren't Facebook/Reddit still exist?
Obviously HN is one, but I'm sure there are other independent forums with compelling content that still exist. Where do you spend your time online?
- PaulHoule 5y agoI am active on tapatalk.
- 8b16380d 5y agohttps://www.toyota-4runner.org https://www.toyota-4runner.org
- brtkdotse 5y agoYOSPOS is the place where the cool guys hang out, and where scrubs are left out. Let's go to YOSPOS, it's p. chill there.
- INTPenis 5y agoFor the swedes, flashback. I actually know lawyers who read flashback for a sort of crowd sourced case info. You just have to wade through the casual racism.
- missedthecue 5y agogo to your search engine and type "[interest/hobby] forum" and you'll find a selection of sufficiently active vbulletin forums, communities, and groups. Random examples - https://www.rvforum.net/ https://www.rvforum.net/ https://www.woodworkingtalk.com/ https://www.woodworkingtalk.com/ https://www.benzworld.org/forums/ https://www.benzworld.org/forums/ etc...
- brodo 5y agohttps://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/
- depingus 5y agohttps://www.rc10talk.com/ https://www.rc10talk.com/
- paxys 5y agoEdmunds forum for cars is very popular
- sdca 5y ago4chan, xda developers, stackoverflow
- dcow 5y agolainchan
- tablespoon 5y agohttp://www.digitalfaq.com/ http://www.digitalfaq.com/ and https://www.videohelp.com/ https://www.videohelp.com/ They're not general interest entertainment forums, but there's a lot of specialist knowledge about analog to digital video conversion.
- splatzone 5y agohttp://vi-control.net http://vi-control.net for music production and composition
- amelius 5y agoI'm especially worried about the number of people seeking medical advice in Facebook groups using their real names.
- throwawayboise 5y agoWhat are you worried about?
- amelius 5y agoPrivacy issues; that should be clear to you, throwaway ;)
- dmitrygr 5y agoPhysorg Habr
- ramesh31 5y agoThere's all kinds car forums that are still around from the 90's that have maintained a community for 20+ years and are the authoritative source of repair info for many classic models. It makes you weep for the endless amount of expertise and congregated knowledge that is now being locked away in these social media walled gardens and private chat apps like Discord.
- bendotero 5y agohttps://tortoiseforum.org https://tortoiseforum.org for turtle/tortoise owners (we have 3).
- randycupertino 5y agoThere are some hobby and sport-specific ones out there, Slowtwitch for Triathletes and Teton Gravity Research for skiers/mountain bikers. Both still pretty active!
- torstenvl 5y agoFor owners of Toyota Tacomas: https://www.tacomaworld.com/ https://www.tacomaworld.com/
- zone411 5y agoCheck out our forum! 58 million posts. https://www.city-data.com/forum/ https://www.city-data.com/forum/
- curuinor 5y agosomething awful is still around, so is metafilter. structurally unspammable because of the paywall
- dadro 5y agohttps://www.tacomaworld.com/ https://www.tacomaworld.com/
- dadro 5y agoOn that theme, most of the boards I participate in are focused on just one topic. https://www.rodbuilding.org/ https://www.rodbuilding.org/
- Giorgi 5y agoEvery single car brand has several board, some popular makes have their own dedicated very popular boards.
- JStanton617 5y agohttps://www.avsforum.com/ https://www.avsforum.com/
- colmvp 5y agoTbh, I thought this was going to be about the Colorado Avalanche. But to the point of the OP, HFBoards.com is a hockey forum and is still very active.
- markbnj 5y agoThis is an odd question. There are tons of active discussion boards that can be found with trivial effort. Other replies have mentioned forums for specific auto makes and models, and you'll find they get spun up quite quickly when a new model comes out, and attract a lot of traffic. I don't think anyone has mentioned Steam discussion boards yet. Heck, Facebook is a discussion board in many respects.
- this2shallPass 5y agoSimilar current thread with other examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28387249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28387249
- LukeShu 5y agoI mostly only lurk, but https://www.vogons.org/ https://www.vogons.org/
- Unklejoe 5y agoThere's a forum for pretty much every type of car (Maxima.org, e90post, etc.).
- floor_ 5y agohttps://forums.somethingawful.com/ https://forums.somethingawful.com/ Something Awful still has tons of users. https://www.resetera.com/ https://www.resetera.com/ Along with ResetEra.
- malthaus 5y ago2 music / modular / synth communities that both underwent recent name changes to be more in line with current sensibilities: https://gearspace.com https://gearspace.com (used to be: gearslutz) https://modwiggler.com https://modwiggler.com (used to be: muffwiggler)
- silicon2401 5y agoAh, that's a shame. Those were some of the last holdouts of pre-PC world before things got ridiculously uptight and sterile
- emerged 5y agoI seem to remember gearslutz coming up in searches all the time. Can’t say I’ve ever seen the new name come up. Maybe it’s just me for some reason, or maybe they basically killed their SEO.
- mwambua 5y agohttps://www.rcgroups.com/ https://www.rcgroups.com/ is really nice if you're into RC
- fragmede 5y agoRC in this context stands for Remote Control vehicles which run the gamut from toy RC cars, to model jet engine airplanes with an 8ft wingspan.
- reilly3000 5y agoA lot of phpbb boards were retired due to security concerns. They were rarely updated and often didn’t use https. Systems like that are easy targets for comment spam scripts as they are uniform and have broad reach. They don’t monetize well, as user-generated content can be unappealing to advertisers and tends to be categorically blacklisted. Overall they were and are more of a liability than asset to many sites. Still, I hope they stay a vibrant part of the web. Discourse is the go-to platform for new forums IMHO.
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- random42_ 5y agoDiscourse is closer to IRC than forums IMHO.
- reilly3000 5y agoInteresting perspective. I see it as a forum as each post has a url and topics are threaded. How does it look like IRC to you?
- cblconfederate 5y agoFor one, it looks like it. Posts are hard to find, not indexed by google, topics are mixed in conversation etc. Overall i find that discord has an unworkable model, it doesn't scale when too many users join user. It's like IRC + history + notifications.
- reilly3000 5y agoI think we’re mixing Discourse and Discord. Agreed on all fronts on Discord, it’s basically IRC with a teamspeak server.
- themakermark 5y agovery active https://www.phantasytour.com/bands/phish/threads https://www.phantasytour.com/bands/phish/threads
- jaredandrews 5y agoMy go to spot when working on my Honda motorcycle: https://www.hondashadow.net/ https://www.hondashadow.net/
- dceddia 5y agoMostly niche stuff, and for me it’s been places I visit while I’m interested in a topic, but then stop visiting once I’m done. The johnbridge.com tile forum was an immensely useful resource when I was tiling my kitchen floor. The tdpri.com forum (Tele Home Depot in particular) was what inspired me to build a guitar, and was a huge help while I was doing the project.
- ryanmarsh 5y agohttps://4chan.org https://4chan.org 4chan is still around...
- raybb 5y agoLemmy is a pretty nice federated reddit alternative https://lemmy.ml/ https://lemmy.ml/ https://github.com/LemmyNet https://github.com/LemmyNet
- yaloas 5y agoLemmy creator was banned from r/socialism for posting neo nazi literature. https://raddle.me/f/chapotraphouse/113374/say-no-thx-to-lemmy https://raddle.me/f/chapotraphouse/113374/say-no-thx-to-lemm...
- yaloas 5y ago"I used to recommend Lemmy very strongly, thought the people who develop it were nice folks interested in making the world better too. However, recent discussions with the developers has changed my mind completely. I am very suspicious about their motivations now." https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379 https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379?
- yaloas 5y ago"I kind of like #lemmy, but I'm bothered by the fact it is done by a tankie who deflects human-rights abuse as soon as it's done by an authoritarian regime he believes to be communist or anti-united-states. To mass murder done by tankies he response with, "Imao sounds like we got the fuckin high score then u fuckin lib." How is it possible that no one is bothered by that?" https://social.linux.pizza/@syster/104501160324001706 https://social.linux.pizza/@syster/104501160324001706
- qq4 5y agoplenty. I have been frequenting pbnation.com since about 2006 which is a paintball community.
- NelsonMinar 5y agoMetafilter, which is a custom ColdFusion-based thing (and very old). Apnea Board is still running phpBB and has an elaborate page explaining how HTTPS support isn't really necessary. I've long thought that if I were to set up a new forum I'd use Discourse. It's good in the few places I've used it. (NTP Pool, I think).
- vibrato2 5y agocommunities.win
- vollmarj 5y agohttps://talk.newagtalk.com https://talk.newagtalk.com is where farmers hang out on the web.
- meristem 5y agohttps://chemistscorner.com/cosmeticsciencetalk/ https://chemistscorner.com/cosmeticsciencetalk/ For cosmetic formulators
- andyjohnson0 5y agohttps://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/ https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/ If you're into rock climbing, mountaineering, walking, etc. Discussion can get a bit "robust" but there are some super-helpful people on the UKC forums. Also sections for cycling, photography, skiing, etc. I'm not sure what software they run: probably fairly custom. The platform had a big refurbishment a year or so ago.
- amysox 5y agohttps://www.crossdressers.com/forums/ https://www.crossdressers.com/forums/ are still around, and still providing a good resource for CDs and nascent trans women.
- bovermyer 5y agoThe Royal Manticoran Navy forums and RPGNet are the two I spend the most time on.
- yaloas 5y agohttps://postmill.xyz/ https://postmill.xyz/ You can use it to join an existing community or build your own. It is lightweight, easy to use, does not require java script, ip logs are removed automatically, has a inbuilt wiki, great moderation tools,...ah and of course it is foss.
- rmah 5y agoThousands and thousands of them still exist covering every topic under the sun and more. I frequent a few but would rather not have the masses descend on them. Unless you mean platforms that host a wide variety of topics... then a few, but not nearly as many.
- mattowen_uk 5y agohttp://www.friendface.co.uk http://www.friendface.co.uk "A great new site for meeting people!"
- logicalmonster 5y agoTo me, it feels like a lot of good old message boards have died off because: * Many communities migrated to social media. * Search Engines (for some reason) seem to have quit ranking discussion boards high in search results.
- inawarminister 5y agoI'm mostly in forums.spacebattles.com and alternatehistory.net Talking about media and novels and history, while writing our own amateur takes. Some pretty talented writing came out there, like Worm (superhero serial) and The Games We Play. Quite fun.
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- emerged 5y agoI’m personally happy that the forum I used to frequent is gone. Forums don’t like to remove old posts and it feels like a privacy win to scrub years of old posts. Even when you’re posting with anonymous names, there will come a time when all your anonymous accounts will be unmasked using AI fingerprinting of some sort.
- erion 5y agoKiramoji is a recent anonymous one, but it's more like a general message board: https://kiramoji.ga https://kiramoji.ga
- desertraven 5y agoI’m currently working on just this. The concept allows you to search a combination of Wikipedia terms to find people at that intersection. Eg. Blockchain/JavaScript, Fermentation/Kombucha, Aquaponics/Blueberries, Electric Bicycle/Solar, etc. Currently it’s set up much like HN, with ability to submit things at an intersection for others to find. I’m also considering creating a game world map based off the entirety of Wikipedia. Then once you find a niche intersection you can drop into the world at the corresponding coordinates and chat with people nearby (searching the same or similar niches).
- Saphyel 5y agoStackoverflow, twitter and discord are my top places where I spend my time online
- Scottn1 5y agohttps://forums.golfwrx.com/ https://forums.golfwrx.com/ https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/
- tohmasch 5y agohttps://cryptopanic.com/ https://cryptopanic.com/
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